[meteorite-list] UofA giving collection to dealer control.

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jan 20 10:13:15 2006
Message-ID: <20060120151311.89443.qmail_at_web26212.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

This is the market....your words time ago

Matteo

--- Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net> ha
scritto:

> The more I think of this, the more outraged I am.
> I have donated tens of thousands of $$$ of
> meteorites to the UofA, and now
> they have been turned over to the control of a
> meteorite dealer.
> I wonder if some of them will be submitted at the
> auction in Tucson? This is
> in my opinion a huge conflict of interest. How can
> they do that? Why not put
> Christies in charge of the Smithsonian art
> collection, and Butterfields in
> charge of the American Museum of Natural History?
> When did Universities
> start doling out the job to commercial dealers?
> Is anyone outraged at this?
> No more donations to the UofA for me, I might find
> my Moon and Mars rocks on
> http://www.meteorite-lab.com/.
>
> This is total bunk, I guess museums are for sale.
>
> Mike Farmer
>
>
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